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Update: Writer Rankings Working Again

Written by Dave Nemetz

5 comments

Aug 18 2008

UPDATE:

Thanks to B/R rock star developer Axel Molina, writer rankings are back up and running correctly.

Remember, these are the newly calculated rankings that put a lot more weight on qualitative factors as opposed to just the quantity of articles you’ve written. That said, we feel they are a lot more accurate and hope you’ll agree. We’ll keep working to improve them, so if you have any feedback please let us know.

Thanks,

The B/R Team

File Under: Development, Community

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  1. Nick said on August 19, 2008 5:43 pm

    Hey, thanks for updating the rankings. However, I find myself completely baffled by them. I know you’re working really hard, and I myself know that rankings are a good measure of where we are as writers, but prior to the update I was 14th on the MMA page. Now, not even in the top 32? Cmon. I’ve always written good articles, and though I’ve only been a member for a good month or two, I feel that dropping that low isn’t fair. Don’t take this as a hate comment, please don’t. I respect you guys, and this entire site. I just want some fair treatment, as I put so much hard work into my articles, and this site daily. Please let me know what you can do. Thanks.

  2. Curly Morris said on August 19, 2008 6:56 pm

    Great job. You guys are obviously committed to evolving this into a premiere sporting news site and I support your efforts 100%. You have many writers here who do a much better job than many of the columnists on the major outlets.

  3. Scott Malone said on August 19, 2008 8:01 pm

    Hey guys, I like the idea of making the whole rankings more quality based. However, since they were updated, I used to be 4th on the Phillies top writers rankings, and now I’m not even in the top 12. While I would mind if the people in front of me had written more, high quality Phillies articles than I have, I would completely understand. However, I am behind guys who have not written one article about the Phils, or they write one article that gets maybe 50 reads and all of a sudden they are number three or four on the top writers board. I love the work you guys do, and I love this site. I do not want to sound angry, I am just pointing out something that has irked myself and several other Phillies writers.

  4. Nick said on August 19, 2008 8:29 pm

    see, so its not just me…..

  5. john said on August 20, 2008 8:53 pm

    How do you actaully rank articles? Can you explain it more?
    Is it based on number of
    votes? On frequency? On the time the article was posted?

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